[WikiEN-l] a new category for the living

Thu Jan 19 21:08:31 UTC 2006

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Derksen

> Carbonite wrote:
> > What about implementing a Special page that lists all 
> articles with a 
> > birth date category, but not a death date category? This would 
> > effectively be the same as a "Living People" category (after fixing 
> > articles that mistakenly omit a death category).
> >   
> It'd help locate some of those if the living-person list were 
> sorted by birth year, everyone over 120 years or so old is 
> probably missing a death date.

It's the articles that would be missing the death date; the people
themselves would not.

Pete